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Source: <<A>> book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments / by James Gibbs. http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/203812

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PLATE LIX.
A Design made for the Right Honourable the Earl of Ilay for his Villa at Whitton near Hampton-Court. It is 82 feet in front by 56 in depth. From a Portico of 20 feet by 10 you enter a Room of 30 feet by 40, and 30 feet high; on each side of which there is an Apartment. This Building is of the Ionick Order. The Portico, Windows, Fascia's, Entablature, and all the projecting parts were propos'd to be of stones, and the rest of Brick finish'd over with Stucco.

PLATE LX.
The Plan of the second Floor, and a Section of the foregoing Design. There are four Bedchambers, two Closets and two Stair-cases on this Plan. The great Room goes two Stories high, as is express'd by the Section; by which the height of the other Rooms are likewise shown.

PLATE LXI.
Two Plans and a Front of a little House propos'd to my Lord Ilay for the same place. Out of a Porch you enter a Room of 20 feet by 40 and 20 feet high; beyond which there are two Rooms of 14 feet by 18 1/2 and 9 1/2 feet in height, with a Stair-case between them that leads to Rooms over them of the same dimensions. Upon the 2 pair of Stairs Floor and over the large Room are 4 Rooms 10 feet high. The lower Plan shews the under-ground Story. The Kitchen is in a Court at one end of the House, and the Servants Hall at the other, with a Passage of Communication through the House. The Chimneys of the Kitchen and Servants Hall are carried into the Wall of the House, and the Roof of them is skreen'd by a Wall 10 feet high. Besides three Vaults under the great Room, there are Rooms below for the House-keeper and other Conveniencies. The Fronts are propos'd to be of Brick, plaister'd over, and all the projecting parts to be of Stone.

PLATE LXII.
Another Design for Whitton, 72 feet in front by 43. I have given two Plans and a Front of it upon this Plate. You ascend five Steps into a Portico, and thence go into an arch'd Salon of 20 feet by 40, and 25 feet high, lighted from the Fore and Back-Fronts, by Semi-
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